2754.As it turns out, I’m just not smart enough to block out this entire blog, and even though I’m not the most popular destination of the Intertubez (I’ve kinda made my peace with this (no, I haven’t)) eventually there comes a time when you do have to say something.

The Oatmeal has invited everyone to ‘pirate the shit’ out of the following animated GIF. It explains it all in terms that anyone should be able to get. If you don’t like The Oatmeal, you’re uncool and should have your Internet connection downgraded to dialup, but that’s just me for you.

What I don’t understand is where Congress (or, as they called it in the days of the founding of our republic, Congrefs) got the idea that we want this stuff. I didn’t say, gee, Congrefs, when you go into session next year, could you please come up with a law that will turn me into a criminal just for linking to someone’s site, and make it impossible for me to say, start a business without having to have a legal team the size of the First Army to make sure my legal i’s are crossed and my t’s are dotted?

I didn’t say that. Did any of you? Didn’t think so.

So much for all that. If you want to pirate The Oatmeal’s animated GIF, go here (http://theoatmeal.com/sopa), and we really recommend that you read this short, comprehensible FAQ produced by teh Google: https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/sopa-pipa/and note that Google and Wikipedia both blacked out for the day, and imagine what it would be like to have to deal with an Internet like that, because if we get stuck with SOPA and PIPA, that’s just what we’ll have … all the time.